So... I'm sitting in my hotel room, downtown Nashville, the night before the National Youth Worker's Convention is over, and I must say that my mind is swimming! As I think about all that God is doing in my life and ministry, there are many variables that will play a part in where CONNECT will be heading in the future as well as myself personally. It's crazy to see how God nudge's you. Sometimes you don't realize where you are when you are in ministry day in and day out. When I was given the opportunity to come down here, it was a perfect opportunity for me to just get away from everything, and be able to reflect!
Just to catch everyone up to speed, last week at CONNECT I introduced the idea that we are basically stopping everything going on in CONNECT right now. The only thing we are going to offer to students is on the Wednesday nights when the rest of the church meets, we will be offering a prayer service, where we will be praying for God's wisdom to guide us in the visioning process. The point of stopping everything is to help us get back on track with where GOD wants to take this ministry. We will be determining the vision and some practical goals for CONNECT. This is perfect timing, because down here, I have been given so many great resources on visioning, and relationships, and leading, and students, and looking toward the future... the list goes on and on!
God is so good to me. He has blessed me with a great youth group and an awesome "core" group of students, a church that provides me with everything to effectively run a ministry, an awesome wife to give me support, and of course His word to guide, strengthen, lead, challenge, connect me to Him! It seems sometimes like I feel like we are limited in our ministry, but one thing that I have realized down here is that God is a God who provides in every area, as long as we are willing to trust Him.
I ask you to pray for me as we are going through this process right now of defining who we are. It's one thing to say that we are "CONNECT", but what does that mean?!? Why are doing what we are doing. Please pray for us as we are deciding who we are and what we stand for so that in the beginning of the year, we can hit the pavement running so fast that Berne can't keep up!
